Titles starting with V from Rabelais - Fine Books on Food, Wine & the Arts

Staatsdruckerei, 1902. Large quarto, 12 pages. First edition, with eight chromolithographed illustrations in the text, four of which are full pages. The second of nine short fairy tale books illustrated by Russian master illustrator Ivan Bilibin (1876-1942), commissioned by the Department for the Production of State Documents. Bilibin studied with Ilya Repin in his city of birth, St. Petersburg. The images from Vasilisa were amongst his earliest, dated from 1899. Small closed tear, not affecting text, a... more information

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Stampa Alternativa, (1989). Square octavo, 92 pages. First edition, of this collection of lyrics by the legendary Velvets. Lyrics in Italian and English. Essay in Italian only. Illustrated throughout with black and white pictures. Accompanied by a 7" single disc with 'Ride into the Sun', 'Femme Fatale', 'and European Son'. Book in publisher's wrappers and single in fine condition. ... more information

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Librairie Armand Colin, 1958. 2 volumes, thick large octavos, 491 & 563. First editions. A major study of Racine. Wear to wrappers and neat tape repairs to heads and feet of both spines. Internally very good. With the neat signature of Andre Bruel on the half-title of volume 1.Cabeen: Critical Bibliography of French Literature, III/2398.) ... more information

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View Magazine, 1942. Large octavo, 32 pages + ads. First edition of this special issue of the American Surrealist periodical View, dedicated to Max Ernst. The first issue of View to talk on the magazine format (previous issues were a folded broadsheet), with color wrappers and illustrated interiors. With contributions by Andre Breton, Sidney Janis, Leonora Carrington, Parker Tyler, Henry Miller, Nicolas Calas, Joseph Cornell, Julien Levy Amedee Ozenfant, and Max Ernst himself. Illustrated throughout, and p... more information

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View Magazine, 1946. Large quarto, 52 pages + ads. First edition of this special double issue of the American Surrealist periodical View, dedicated to Paris. With contributions by Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Genet, Paul Valery, Henri Michaux, Rene Char, Albert Camus, and others. Illustrated throughout, with works by Brancusi, Dubuffet, Dominguez, Wols, Hausmann, Ozenfant and others. Some light wear to fold at spine, otherwise a very good copy. ... more information

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View Magazine, 1946. Large quarto, 52 pages + ads. First edition of this special double issue of the American Surrealist periodical View, dedicated to Paris. With contributions by Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Genet, Paul Valery, Henri Michaux, Rene Char, Albert Camus, and others. Also includes Lionel Abel's great essay, "Georges Bataille's repetition of Neitzsche". Illustrated throughout, with works by Brancusi, Dubuffet, Dominguez, Wols, Hausmann, Ozenfant and others. Some light wear to fold at spine... more information

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View Magazine, 1943. Large quarto, 66 pages + ads. First edition of this issue of the American Surrealist periodical View. Contributions by Benjamin Peret, Leon Kochnitsky, Kenneth Burke, E.E. Cummings, Philip Lamantia, Kenneth Macpherson, and Harold Rosenberg. With illustrations by Pavel Tchelitchew, Leonor Fini, and others. A near fine copy in wrappers designed by Man Ray. ... more information

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Centro Di/Edizioni, 1970. Square quarto, unpaginated. First edition of this catalogue of an exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome covering the sixties in Italy. Features the work of Alfano, Alviani, Anselmo, Boetti, Castellani, Fabro, Kounellis, Lo Savio, Manzoni, Merz, Pistoletto, Rotella, Zorio et al. Beautifully designed, and illustrated in black and white. Some light wear to the printed silver boards, otherwise very good, with publisher's cloth backed spine, and two half-slipcase sections. ... more information

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Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1931. Foreward by the secretary of RAPP. Small octavo, 12 pages. Second edition, 10,000 copies printed letterpress. Front and rear covers designed by Solomon Telingater. Photographic illustrations on inside front wrappers as well. Small 1/8-inch deep chip to top edge of front wrapper, otherwise a very good copy. [Rowell/Rye, Russian Avant-Garde Book, 966]. ... more information

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George Henry Carter/Government Printing Office, 1932. Folio, unpaginated. First edition, number 214 of 420 copies bound in parchment and printed on handmade paper. Printed in black, blue and red in Cloister types in two columns in the style of the Gutenberg Bible. Illustrated with three black and white photographs of Otto Vollbehr and his Gutenberg Bible. Vollbehr's collection of three thousand pieces of fifteenth century printing was sold by the collector to the Library of Congress for 1.5 Million dollar... more information

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